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Victory; the story of convoy PQ18. By Peter C. Smith. Crecy Publishing.
ISBN 0947554440 |
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In
1942 the climax of the war at sea was reached with three tremendous convoy
battles, one in the Mediterranean and two in the Arctic. After the annihilation
of PQ17, all rested on the battle fought by its far more successful successor,
PQ 18 which sailed from Scotland for Russia in September 1942. Close escort
is provided by 17 warships plus escort carrier "Avenger" and two destroyers.
Two separate forces are in support - close cover is given by AA cruiser
"Scylla" and 16 fleet destroyers under Rear-Adm R L Burnett, and further
out three heavy cruisers. More distant cover is by Vice-Adm Sir Bruce Fraser
with battleships "Anson" and "Duke of York", a light cruiser and destroyers
to the northeast of Iceland. The convoy was attacked by 44 German aircraft
just south of Spitzbergen on the 13th and some 70 torpedoes doing 50 knots
were dropped at about 1000 yards range against the long lines of
wallowing freighters.
Here the whole panorama of the battle is recounted, from the organising
and sailing of the convoy, the plans and composition of the escort, and
the German counter plans which involved all arms, including two squadrons
of their heaviest surface ships and the Luftwaffe's first mass torpedo
bomber assault.
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| Hardcover
- 240 pages (1994) |
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| Convoys
to Russia: Allied Convoys and Naval Surface Operations in Arctic Waters,
1941-5. by Ruegg, B. & Hague, A. World Ship Society. ISBN: 0905617665 |
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This
book is about the allied war against the elements and the Axis forces in
the Arctic Convoys to Russia.
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| Hardcover
- (1992) |
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| Norway
1940. Francois Kersaudy, University of Nebraska Press; ISBN: 0803277873.
£10.95 RRP: |
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No
episode in the British conduct of the Second World War is
more shameful
than the story told here. The courage and
steadfastness
of the soldiers, sailors and Airmen and their commanders is in striking
contrast to the baseness, the cowardice, the sheer incompetence of the
government that put them in impossible situations and, having put them
there, dithered and vacillated. On both sides of the Channel the national
leaders, Churchill excepted, were engrossed in playing politics at a time
of deadly danger. All too soon France paid a terrible price. How near England
came to that this book most clearly shows. And it also shows to what depths
of dishonour England descended in deceiving their Norwegian ally. Other
work by the author includes "Churchill and De Gaulle".
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| Paperback
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| Fly
Navy, edited by Charles Manning. Pen & Sword Books Ltd. ISBN: 0850527325.
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To
mark the Millennium, 95 members of the Fleet Air Arm Officer's Association
have recalled their experiences of over 55 years of post-war naval flying.
Fly Navy is a unique and entertaining anthology of flying stories, which
will delight all with even a passing interest in service life and aviation.
A 'warts and all'
persepective of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm post-Second World War, covering
flying operations world-wide and active service in Korea, Malaya, Aden,
Borneo, Suez, the Falklands and the Gulf. 95 first-person accounts accompanied
by rich array of photographs, many never previously published. Foreword
by HRH Prince Andrew, himself a Sea King pilot in the Falklands.
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| Hardcover
- 239 pages (1 June, 2000) |
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